Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Abbreviations; Introduction: Heading South: Internationalizing Educational Management and Effectiveness; Part One: The State of the Field; Part Two: Contextual Realities for School Management; Part Three: Explaining School Management: Levels of Understanding; Part Four: Towards Post-Bureaucracy; Conclusion: School Management and Development: Goals and Own Goals; References; Name Index; Subject Index
Summary
This book is quite different from existing 'Western' books on school effectiveness. It describes and analyses the way in which schools operate in developing countries and also tries to explain why they are as they are. Examining them at three levels - the macro, the meso and the micro - the authors use a theoretical framework that they have termed 'post-bureaucracy.'The book has four interlinked sections. First the authors examine the existing economic and theoretical contexts around school effectiveness, including an analysis of the causes of economic crisis and its impact on school managemen
